Noshir Contractor is a professor of Behavioral Science at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

. He is the director of Sonic Lab and is also the director of Web Science Trust. He has published more than 250 research papers in the area of social communication networks. He is well known for the MTML Framework with Peter Monge described in detail in Theories of Communication Networks which received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association

National Communication Association

The National Communication Association is the largest national organization to promote communication scholarship and education. A non-profit organization that has over 8,000 educators, practitioners, and students who work and reside in every state and more than 20 countries...

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